After getting a little deeper into the game, these are my first impressions:
The starting page made me hope the navigation would be close to OOTP ... but after starting the game I found out that the navigation is completely different and quite confusing. Why, for christ's sake, do the develpers need to create a completely new navigation when we all are coming from OOTP baseball and are used to that ??
The easiest and best thing would have been to use that navigation and adjust it to FHM ... and you still can't change seasons within the game (okay, it's much better than previously, you "only" have to go to the start page and load the league there)
Anyway, I started a historical NHL-season (1966) - when I want to advance to pre-season I get this message:
How many players are allowed on my protected list ?
I also started a DEL-season - when I want to play my first pre-season game I get this message:
How many foreign players are allowed ? I can't find other (German) players on my team to replace foreign players.
I also used "AI setup organization" and that's what the AI came up with it.
I created a 1933 NHL-season on Monday and simmed a game - at least the simulation speed is much better than it was in FHM14, but beside that I can't see much improvement.
I definitely will give this game some more time - but after the FHM14-desater I will ask for a refund this time if things don't improve dramatically.
This game definitely has to be playable for casual hockey fans, not only experts ... and why we again have to have a completely new navigation is beyond me.
Or maybe I'm just too stupid to play this game.